TED for Teachers

from a great blog by Larry Ferlazzo - check it out!
TED talks organised by subject, title and running time.

American History

Anna Deavere Smith	Four American characters	0:23:05
David Hoffman	Catch Sputnik mania!	0:03:50
Irwin Redlener	How to survive a nuclear attack	0:25:18
Doris Kearns Goodwin	Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis	0:18:48
Jennifer 8. Lee	Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food	0:16:38
Laurie Garrett	Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu	0:21:05
World History
Jared Diamond	Why societies collapse	0:18:21
Siegfried Woldhek	The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?	0:04:24
Samantha Power	Shaking hands with the devil	0:23:09
Geography
Hans Rosling	Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen	0:19:50
Dr. Dean Ornish	The world now eats (and dies) like Americans	0:03:18
Wade Davis	Cultures at the far edge of the world	0:22:01
Louise Fresco	Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world	0:18:00
Nathan Wolfe	Hunting the next killer virus	0:12:20
Language Arts
Erin McKean	Redefining the dictionary	0:15:50
Lakshmi Pratury	The lost art of letter-writing	0:04:09
Brewster Kahle	A digital library, free to the world	0:20:06
C.K. Williams	Poetry for all seasons of life	0:23:17
Education
Sir Ken Robinson	Do schools kill creativity?	0:19:24
Richard Baraniuk	Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning	0:18:34
Alan Kay	A powerful idea about teaching ideas	0:20:37
Stuart Brown	Why play is vital — no matter your age	0:26:42
Mae Jemison	Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together	0:14:48
Sugata Mitra	Can kids teach themselves?	0:20:59
Art
Paola Antonelli	Treating design as art	0:18:17
David Macaulay	All roads lead to Rome Antics	0:21:35
Margaret Wertheim	Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral	0:15:33
Ursus Wehrli	Tidying up art	0:15:57
Music
Sirena Huang	Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinist	0:24:41
Jennifer Lin	Magical improv from 14-year-old pianist	0:24:05
Caroline Lavelle	A cello performance that casts a spell	0:07:39
Pamelia Kurstin	Theremin, the untouchable music	0:19:11
Benjamin Zander	Classical music with shining eyes	0:20:43
James Burchfield	Sound stylings by a human beatbox	0:04:44
Jose Antonio Abreu	Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prize winner!)	0:16:58
Eric Lewis	Striking chords to rock the jazz world	0:10:36
Natalie MacMaster	Playing the Cape Breton fiddle	0:18:47
Mathematics
Arthur Benjamin	Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic”	0:15:14
Greg Lynn	How calculus is changing architecture	0:18:54
Steven Strogatz	How things in nature tend to sync up	0:21:58
Biology
Aubrey de Grey	Why we age and how we can avoid it	0:22:45
E.O. Wilson	TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life	0:22:35
Craig Venter	A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea	0:16:51
James Watson	The double helix and today’s DNA mysteries	0:20:11
Robert Full	Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches	0:19:24
Gregory Stock	How biotech will drive our evolution	0:17:51
Bonnie Bassler	Discovering bacteria’s amazing communication system	0:18:14
Peter Ward	Earth’s mass extinctions	0:19:41
Barry Schuler	An introduction to genomics	0:21:26
Kary Mullis	Celebrating the scientific experiment	0:29:32
Physics
Murray Gell-Mann	Beauty and truth in physics	0:16:02
Brian Cox	An inside tour of the world’s biggest supercollider	0:14:59
Patricia Burchat	The search for dark energy and dark matter	0:16:09
Brian Cox	Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC	0:03:29
Health/Physical Education
Ben Saunders	Three things to know before you ski to the North Pole	0:18:03
Mark Bittman	What’s wrong with what we eat	0:20:08
Ann Cooper	Reinventing the school lunch	0:19:42
John Wooden	Coaching for people, not points	0:17:36
Matthew Childs	Matthew Childs’ 9 life lessons from rock climbing	0:04:48
Dr. Dean Ornish	Healing and other natural wonders	0:16:49
Civics/Government
Ashraf Ghani	How to fix broken states	0:18:45
Sasa Vucinic	Why a free press is the best investment	0:18:00
Jonathan Haidt	The real difference between liberals and conservatives	0:18:42
Nate Silver	Nate Silver: Does race affect votes?	0:09:16
Lee Smolin	How science is like democracy	0:12:25
Psychology
Michael Shermer	Why people believe strange things	0:13:25
Vilayanur Ramachandran	A journey to the center of your mind	0:23:34
Keith Barry	Brain magic	0:19:49
Michael Merzenich	Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain	0:23:07
Elizabeth Gilbert	A different way to think about creative genius	0:19:28
Steven Pinker		0:22:42
Anthropology
Zeresenay Alemseged	Finding the origins of humanity	0:15:51
Louise Leakey	Digging for humanity’s origins	0:15:36
Spencer Wells	Building a family tree for all humanity	0:20:53
Murray Gell-Mann	Do all languages have a common ancestor?	0:02:15
Earth Science/Environment
Al Gore	15 ways to avert a climate crisis	0:16:17
Juan Enriquez	Why can’t we grow new energy?	0:18:10
Andy Hobsbawm	Do the green thing	0:03:22
Willie Smits	A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforest	0:20:42
Sylvia Earle	Here’s how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!)	0:18:16
Bill Gross	Great ideas for finding new energy	0:19:55
Statistics
Peter Donnelly	How juries are fooled by statistics	0:21:20
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita	Three predictions on the future of Iran, and the math to back it up	0:19:05
Sean Gourley	Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war	0:07:19
Economics
Benjamin Wallace	Does happiness have a price tag?	0:14:40
Dan Ariely	Why we think it’s OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)	0:16:23
Mike Rowe	Celebrating work — all kinds of work	0:20:02
Barry Schwartz	The real crisis? We stopped being wise	0:20:45
David S. Rose	10 things to know before you pitch a VC for money	0:14:39
Family/Consumer Science
Peter Reinhart	The art of baking bread	0:15:34
Joseph Pine	What do consumers really want?	0:14:19
Technology/Computers in Education
Evan Williams	How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses	0:08:00
Erik Hersman	Erik Hersman on reporting crisis via texting	0:03:56
Tim Berners-Lee	The next Web of open, linked data	0:16:23
Brenda Laurel	Why didn’t girls play videogames?	0:13:08
Juan Enriquez	Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis	0:18:50
David Merrill	Siftables, the toy blocks that think	0:07:09
James Surowiecki	The moment when social media became the news	0:16:59
Astronomy
Penelope Boston	Life on Mars? Let’s look in the caves	0:18:29
Jill Tarter	Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!)	0:21:23
George Smoot	The design of the universe	0:19:00
Charles Elachi	The story of the Mars Rovers	0:28:17
Peter Diamandis	Taking the next giant leap in space	0:15:31
Freeman Dyson	Let’s look for life in the outer solar system	0:19:11